Chapter 40: Slaughtering the Village
Hearing Shu Changshan's question, Lu Ming was stunned: "What? ”
"It smells." Shu Changshan's voice remained mostly calm, but his sadness could be clearly felt under the calm: "I can feel that I am rotting. I put on some perfume before I left, but I couldn't hide it. ”
Lu Ming was silent.
Regarding the deterioration of Shu Changshan's physical condition, he was really helpless and didn't know what to do at all.
This makes him have to be convinced that no matter what the reason is, in short, it will be as short as two months or as long as half a year, and there is a high probability that Shu Changshan is really going to die.
"Mr. Shu, you don't have to worry, we're ......"
"Don't comfort me." Before He Wei finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shu Changshan: "My own body, I know. The only hope I have now is that you will keep your promise and take good care of my child, so that he can grow up in peace, and follow the right path and not go wrong. ”
Lu Ming said solemnly: "Don't worry. ”
"If the child is fine, I don't have to worry about it."
Shu Changshan said quietly: "By the way, I have a way to deal with the monsters." I'm not sure, but ...... You can give it a try. ”
Well?
Lu Ming and He Wei immediately became solemn.
"Let's go back, and I'll tell you more about it."
Lu Ming and He Wei pushed Shu Changshan back to the base and came to the conference room.
"It's something I get from my own body."
He smiled sadly, "I tried to cover the stench of my rotting body with perfume, and I wondered if I could do something to hide my still alive and make the monsters think I was dead." ”
"Fake your death?" Lu Ming pondered the language: "How do the monsters sense whether you are still alive?" ”
"Inspiration. It's like I sensed where they were through inspiration. I was cursed by them, and they used their inspiration to sense whether I was alive or not. ”
"So, is your solution to cover up your curse?"
"Yes. The curse cannot be completely gone unless it dies. Once they don't feel the curse, there's a high probability they'll think I'm dead. ”
That's a real way to do it.
"How do you cover it up?"
"When the flavor can't be eliminated, it's only possible to mask it with a bigger, stronger flavor, or neutralize it. That way, others can't smell it. The same is true of the breath of life, or the breath of the curse. It cannot be eliminated while the person is alive, so it can only be covered and neutralized with a richer, stronger, and more powerful life form so that others will not perceive it. So...... What is the most powerful life form we know? ”
Shu Changshan smiled vigorously, as if a senior was inspiring the juniors.
"Elephants? Blue whale? Or is it a stronger apex predator? Tiger? Lion? Sharks in the sea? ”
Shu Changshan smiled and shook his head: "Don't be limited to the earth. ”
Lu Ming was stunned and immediately reacted.
"Star Spirit, Light Chaser...... The most powerful is the Monoculus. ”
"Yes. MONOCULUS. Theoretically, the aura of the Demon Eye can completely cover the trace of curse on my body, so that the monsters can't perceive it at all. Of course, only theoretically. I'm not 100% sure that I will be able to do so. ”
Zhang Dingshan said in a deep voice: "How can you use the breath of the magic eye to cover your breath?" ”
The smile on Shu Changshan's face disappeared, and he looked directly into Zhang Dingshan's eyes: "Project the figure of the magic eye." The projection must be large enough, preferably on a scale of more than one kilometer by one kilometer. I am in the shadow of the magic eye, and through a certain ritual, there is hope that this will be done. ”
Lu Ming was stunned, and subconsciously felt a burst of absurdity.
One kilometer multiplied by more than a kilometer? How is this possible? It is simply impossible to make such projectors and screens on Earth. Besides, even if humans really have the ability to make it, it is impossible to actually do so.
Projecting such a big magic eye, looking for death? Still think there are few people who see the magic eye? Still think there are few people who mutate into monsters?
Lu Ming and He Wei glanced at each other, and they both saw a touch of absurdity in each other's eyes. Zhang Dingshan raised his hand, blocking the rebuttal of the two, and still said in a calm voice: "Mr. Shu, we humans don't have this kind of technical ability. ”
"Yes. It's just projection, and if you don't pursue accuracy, you can do it. I remember watching a travel documentary, a travel group, somewhere, projecting a huge destroyed local Buddha statue one to one. If I'm not mistaken, the Buddha statue seems to be almost 100 meters high. A private team can do that, for you, a kilometer square...... It shouldn't be that hard, right? ”
He Wei immediately said: "Bamiyan Buddha? ”
"Yes."
Lu Ming and Zhang Dingshan looked at her at the same time. He Wei said: "I've watched this episode, I'll look for the first ......"
He Wei found that episode of the travel documentary and played it to Lu Ming and Zhang Dingshan.
After seeing it, Zhang Dingshan thought thoughtfully: "You don't need to project it on the screen, you can project it on the cliff, on the ground, etc.?" ”
"Yes."
"In that case, the accuracy should be low."
"It doesn't matter."
Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
He was still vaguely suspicious before, if Shu Changshan was really on the monster side, then his request at the moment was not harboring evil intentions, and he planned to use a huge image of the magic eye to "pollute" more people?
But at the moment, there is no need to worry at all. Even the curtain is not used, and it is directly projected onto the uneven cliff wall or the ground, and its resolution can be imagined to what extent. And this is completely unlikely to lead to the emergence of mutations.
After all, before the Mercury space telescope, the images of the CSK-9602 galaxy taken by the most advanced and accurate telescopes of human civilization were not enough to cause mutation, how could it be at this moment?
If you're really worried, it's a big deal, and when you're projecting, it's good to artificially reduce the accuracy again.
"In that case...... If there is a suitable venue, it should not be difficult to do this technically. It's a bit difficult to engineer, but it can be solved. It's just that...... Mr. Shu, just a projected photo of the magic eye can hide some of the aura? ”
It seems a little hard to believe.
Shu Changshan said: "In the occult theory, the figure of some great being, no matter how this figure is presented, whether it is a photo or a video, itself means some connection between the underworld. You've probably heard that some curse rituals require the victim's photo as a medium, right? ”
Lu Ming nodded. That's true.
Shu Changshan coughed violently twice: "If the monsters thought I was dead, they should start the guidance ceremony." At that point it will be simple, and I will just sense their position again. ”
Lu Ming pondered: "But there are two problems with this. First, this method can only be used once. Even if this time it succeeds, the monsters are still the same as the last time, not all of them, but only a small part of them, so what should those fish that slipped through the net do? ”
After being fooled once, I found that Shu Changshan was not really dead, and those surviving monsters would definitely not be fooled again. They only hide deeper.
Shu Changshan said: "There is no other way. We can only pray that on this only chance, the monsters are all on their way. ”
He Wei said: "Can you think of a way to ensure that this time the monsters must be fully dispatched?" ”
Shu Changshan shook his head: "I have no choice." ”
Lu Ming pondered for a long time, and shook his head: "I can't help it." ”
If Lu Ming had it, he would have tried to force the monsters to hold a ceremony when Shu Changshan was still alive in the near future, so there would be no need to be so troublesome and fake his death.
Shu Changshan represents the Cthulhu system. Lu Ming represents the scientific system. At this moment, both of them gave a negative answer at the same time.
He Wei was stupid: "It seems that we can only pray." ”
The first question has been lifted for the time being.
"The second problem is that if after you fake your death, the monsters still choose to wait and see, rather than rushing to perform the guiding ceremony immediately, and don't know the time...... Is it too late? ”
Hearing this, several people fell silent together.
Shu Changshan still has about two months to half a year left in his life. This is also clear to the monsters. In other words, if you want to carry out the fake death plan, you will not be able to do it until two months at the earliest.
If it is executed before this, the monsters may be suspicious of Shu Changshan's death so early.
But once two months later, Shu Changshan faced the possibility of dying at any time. Suppose the monsters wait and see for a while and drag on for a month or two, then ...... Will Shu Changshan survive to that time?
Shu Changshan smiled bitterly.
"I'm still the same answer. We can only pray. Pray that the monsters are so anxious that as soon as I die, they can't wait to hold the ritual at the nearest point in time. If they keep dragging until I'm really dead...... There is no way around that. ”
Zhang Dingshan said: "Okay." Mr. Shu, you have a good rest first. Let's evaluate the feasibility of this solution. ”
When he came to the conference room, Lu Ming immediately expressed his attitude.
"I'm against it."
He Wei scratched her hair: "I...... I'm neutral. ”
Zhang Dingshan looked at Lu Ming: "The reason for the opposition? ”
"The success rate is too low, and there are too many uncertainties."
Zhang Dingshan shook his head: "This is not the real reason. What you're afraid of is the risk of uncertainty that may come with projecting a huge MONOCULUS image, right? ”
Lu Ming was silent for a moment, and finally nodded: "Yes." ”
"Risk?"
"All we know at the moment is that too accurate MONOCULUS images can lead to madness and mutation. But we don't know if the MONOCULUS image is so large that it is a kilometer by a kilometer, and whether the MONOCULUS image will cause any changes that we don't know about.
All things considered, I think the risks outweigh the benefits, and we shouldn't go ahead with this scenario. ”
In the video screen, Lu Qingliang also grabbed his hair: "I, I'm also neutral." ”
Zhang Dingshan nodded: "Okay." Tomorrow I will find a reason to go to Shu Changshan to reject this plan. ”
Hearing that Zhang Dingshan followed his advice, Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Zhang Dingshan's mobile phone suddenly rang. After connecting, he only said one word, and Zhang Dingshan's expression became serious. After answering a few "yes", he looked at a few people with solemnity.
"At the northern foot of Dali Mountain, more than 600 kilometers away from the base, there is an accident in a village called Xiushui Village."
Lu Ming was a little surprised.
What does this concern us?
"Last night, Xiushui Village was slaughtered. A total of 263 people in the village, including the elderly and children, were killed. ”
Lu Ming stood up in shock. At this moment, his heart was spinning rapidly, and he immediately thought of something.
"What did Li inform us of this? Don't...... Is there a sign that the monsters did it? ”
With a bang, He Wei also stood up reluctantly, her face was full of hideousness, and her eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire.
There is only this possibility, since Director Li Wenhua has informed himself, then he must be inseparable from the monsters!
Slaughter the village!
Zhang Dingshan said solemnly: "It's not that there is a sign. Instead, the monsters took the initiative to leave relevant evidence to prove that they did it. They're taking revenge on us, or...... is demonstrating to us. ”
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He held up his phone and showed a few pictures. In the village, the walls of the house in the picture are clearly outlined with blood.
MONOCULUS!
"Let's go to the scene."
The helicopter roared and took off, and in just two hours, it landed on a flat ground. There are security officers everywhere next to it, and this decaying small village called Xiushui Village is now under martial law.
There were many villagers from other villages watching, all looking panicked. Numerous media reporters are here to report the latest news, chasing every vigilante they see, trying to ask some answers.
It's been a long time since this kind of thing has happened on Earth. No matter how you look at it, this is a big eucalyptus that shocked the whole world.
Ignoring the swarming reporters, the trio went straight into the village under the protection of some security officers.
There are also many vigilantes in the village. They surveyed the scene, took pictures, and carefully collected specimens.
A smell of blood hung over the village.
A few minutes after the group walked forward, they saw the eye picture depicted on the wall.
The accompanying vigilante whispered, "This is drawn with the blood of this family." There are five people in this family, including a son and daughter-in-law who work outside the home, and only grandparents and grandchildren at home.
The murderer is suspected of using the blood of his little grandson to depict this picture first, but the blood was not enough, so he used the blood of his grandfather halfway.
According to the preliminary judgment, there were more than 20 murderers and entered the village with some kind of beast. Traces of the beast's bite were found on the deceased......"
He didn't know what was going on, he just thought it was done by someone.
Lu Ming clenched his fists tightly, and the anger in his heart could hardly be suppressed.
Zhang Dingshan's voice was still calm, but it was a little more solemn: "Let your people withdraw outside the village." Keep your perimeter on guard and don't allow anyone to enter. My men will come and take over this later. ”
"Yes."
The sheriff saluted and left with many of the sheriffs in the village.